Not at all. Virtually every religious movement (Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu) has been found guilty of arbitrarily mistranslating Scripture to keep various groups in check. Women were used, against the wishes of God, as chattel and breeding stock. However, to say that this was always the case is to assume that the Bible is some sort of day to day journal, not a timeline that mostly highlights the major events in the Jewish and, later, Christian faith.
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Originally Posted by kerry
Are you saying the subservience of women is only found in a little snippet in the bible and is not pervasive throughout the book and that the persistent policies of sexual inequality throughout virtually every Christian movement until recent times was at odds with biblical ideas?
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